In FP Tech Desk’s Startup Roundup series, we take a look at Canadian startup news from the past week.

Montreal fashion startup raises $5M in series A funding

Montreal-based Frank & Oak, the fashion startup bent on getting men to up their style game, raised a $5-million series A round of financing, it announced Thursday.

The startup offers personalized online shopping for men intended to take the guesswork out of looking good. The site, launched in February of this year, evolved from earlier venture Modasuite, which did made-to-measure shirts.

I spoke with co-founder and CEO Ethan Song who explained the site sends its members a regular selection of products customized to their tastes and lets them decide whether to accept a delivery, which they can then comb through and choose to pay for and keep individual items or ship back.

“It’s not really like shopping. It’s more like getting a selection from a friend and picking what you wanted,” Mr. Song said.

The company has a team of about 25 people and they do everything from website development to actually designing the clothes featured, sourcing manufacturing (done in Canada, the U.S. and North America) and shooting photos of the garments.

They have more than 160,000 members and are on track to hit 200,000 by the end of the month, according to Mr. Song. Not all of those members result in orders, but in the month of October they’ll ship more than 12,000 orders, he said.

They’ll be using the capital to beef up their numbers and expand their product line, he said.

The funding round was led by Lightbank, a VC firm from Chicago started by Groupon Inc. co-founders Eric Lefkosfsky and Brad Keywell, and Rho Canada Ventures also took part as well as the company’s seed backers Real Ventures.

Notman House launches Indiegogo campaign

Also in Montreal, Notman House, a co-working office-space for early-stage technology startups and general hub of innovation, is looking to raise $100,000 through a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.

Set in a historic building in the Plateau neighbourhood but near the downtown core, it has been running in “proof of concept mode” for the past year and attracted $1.7-million in government grants and a $4.3 million loan from BDC and Investissement Quebec. But that funding is conditional upon Notman House itself coming up with $1.1-million in private contributions. Law firm Fasken Martineau LLP has already kicked in $1-million.

It has raised more than $20,000 so far and hopes to reach its goal by Oct. 29.

Extreme Startups unveils its second cohort of startups

Toronto accelerator Extreme Startups recently revealed the five companies that made it into its second cohort of companies. They’re already at work preparing for demo day, which will be held on Nov. 28.

The companies are Kera, a web browsing platform, Picatic, which does crowdfunding for events, MyShoebox, a cloud-based photo backup platform, Shifthub, which offers shift scheduling for small businesses, and Venio, a healthy-eating platform.

I met Karim el Rabiey from Venio in July on the way to Montreal’s International Startup Festival. During an on-board pitch session on the Startup Train (organized by Guelph, Ont.-based co-working group ThreeFortyNine), Venio emerged as the favourite, as picked by the train’s sponsors. They’re still in beta mode but Karim tells me they’ll be launching an app soon.

Also pitching on the train was Bebedo — an online search platform that helps connect you with events in your area — which stood out to me in part because of its all-female technical team. Bebedo will be taking part in Extreme’s new Preccelerator program that gives local entrepreneurs free space.